Word: broad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other creditors were not enthusiastic about this proposition. By last week Senator Wheeler got down to pay dirt, assaying richly in publicity. Again he dug out a story, the broad outlines of which were already on record. But this time he had something which had been challenged on more than ethical or social grounds. The story...
...when he held Peiping (TIME, June 27, 1927 et seq.) indulged his habit of doing something so fantastic that today only Adolf Hitler does it: he caused the heads of Communists to be actually chopped off and "roll in the sand." Old Chang's executioner with his great broad sword, and sometimes Old Chang with his gold-plated Mauser pistol, killed many more Reds than ever the Nazis have. He also, on his own responsibility as no gentleman and a War Lord, burst open Soviet Embassy offices at Peiping and filled the world for weeks with evidence...
...Oakland was a good bank with four branches and the best location in the busy East Bay City. It fitted naturally into Transamerica Corp.'s branch-banking setup. San Franciscans had another and more popular explanation: that was the bad blood between Banker Giannini and Arnold John Mount, broad-shouldered, bespectacled head of Bank of Oakland. The purchase was spite work. Snapped Lawrence Mario Giannini, swart, enigmatic heir apparent to his father's banking empire: "Ridiculous nonsense...
Robert Gessner was working in Hollywood, preparing the script of his Indian story, Massacre, when Hitler came into power in Germany. A broad-shouldered, heavy youth, author of a book of poems and holder of a pilot's license, Robert Gessner, born in Escanaba, Mich, in 1907, had not thought much about being a Jew before that time. There had been a few painful instances of hostility in his boyhood, more when he got to college, but before Hitler "race hatred and the Jews were interesting subjects, but not pressing." Now he found that even in Hollywood Jewish actors...
...Pettingell became a double winner today as he won the pole vault to add to his five points collected yesterday in the broad jump. Behind him at more modest heights were three Freshmen and another Varsity contender...